Administrative Advocacy and Black Urban Administrators

In: The annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Band 439, S. 68-79

Abstract

Examined are black administrators' advocacy of black communities' interests through civic, community, & professional organizations & their facilitation of greater black participation in Ur governance. The concept of advocacy is discussed & distinguished from representation. Advocacy behaviors are also identified & organized into civic/community & professional advocacy indices, whose scores suggest advocacy behavior's presence & intensity in administrators in the study. A control group of white administrators (N = 82) was selected & their advocacy inclinations were compared to those of black Ur administrators (N = 233). The survey research from Washington, DC, St. Louis, New Orleans, & San Francisco, was used not only to examine administrators' advocacy behavior but also to generate social & occupational data related to advocacy scores. It is found that, although black Ur administrators appeared more inclined to advocate civic, community, & professional interests than white administrators, the majority of both black & white administrators are generally not advocacy prone. 6 Tables. Modified HA.